Most of the earth is covered in water, so why is water conservation such a big deal? Because only a fraction of a percentage of that water is available for use at any given time. This month’s Gazetteer explores how we think about water and why.
February 2012 Gazetteer (PDF, 364 KB)
Doug Caldwell, of the University of Florida Collier County Extension Service, has some suggestions for groundcovers that are more environmentally friendly than the typical Floratam St. Augustine. Read his Naples Daily News article here.
One project of the Collier Soil & Water Conservation District is management of the North Golden Gate Estates Regional Offsite Mitigation Area (NGGE ROMA). Below you’ll find the Spring 2011 and Fall 2011 Reports of progress in that area, where the land is being restored to a more natural state.
NGGE ROMA Spring 2011 Report (PDF, 336 KB)
NGGE ROMA Fall 2011 Report (PDF, 10 MB)
The quarterly report of the Big Cypress Basin Mobile Irrigation Lab is now available:
Big Cypress Basin MIL 1st Quarter 2012 (PDF, 169 KB)
The next meeting of the Collier Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will be held at 8:30 AM on January 19, 2012 at:
14700 Immokalee Road
Naples, Florida 34120
